"empire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- What you are all after is a European empire, is it not?
- The old European empires were under strain, and would soon collapse.
- Following the 1939-45 war, decolonization spread through the former European empires.
- They will be warmly received by this ever-expanding European empire.
- "In the era of great European overseas empires, there was nothing that the people who were subjects could do," he explained.
- In fairness, it's still there - unlike those maritime European empires.
- By comparison with other European empires overseas, the English could feel they were doing well enough.
- It took hundreds of years and oceans of blood to take apart the great European empires.
- The practice was eventually suppressed by the European empires that colonised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- A European empire retrenches, leaving a distant dependency to fend for itself.
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